Sciences Po, Centre d’histoire & LÉA-EA 6294 (Équipe Alimentation), Université François-Rabelais in Tours (Web)

Zeit: 26.-27.05.2016
Venue: Tours
Proposals due: 30.09.2015

Street food significantly developed over the last decade and cannot anymore be assimilated to junk and fast food -that would be the result of the frenetic pace of modern urban life- nor even to something new. From the take-away fried fish of ancient Alexandria to the present fancy food trucks in New York, London or Paris, through the Aztec tortilla sellers, the Ottoman serbetçi or the allegedly immemorial Japanese Yaki Imo vendors, numerous practices have already been observed -and some of them are well-known- in different times and places.

This call for papers doesn’t aim to resume a lost world but to examine urban cultures in practice, into which street food provides and exceptional insight able to shed a new light on our present foodways. Read more and source … (Web)